Bare breasted Andrea Merkel stirs emotions in Poland and Germany

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"Dependent Children"

Warsaw, Poland 27 June, 2007 The image of a bare breasted Andrea Merkel on the front cover of a Polish weekly has been criticized as being tasteless and provocative. It has done little more than to stir the emotions, already high after the European Union summit, of the people in Poland and Germany.

The cover's message," Stanislaw Janecki, editor-in-chief of Wprost, told SPIEGEL ONLINE, "is that Germany, especially Ms. Merkel, was trying to treat Poles and the Polish leaders as small children completely unable to act on their own and somehow dependent on Germany.... There is the impression that Germany, being more powerful, wants to dominate Poland and that the Kaczynski brothers want to stand up to this domination." http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,490795,00.html Nude Merkel Montage Raises ... Eyebrows

Stepmother of Europe

But there's more to it than that.

The magazine, Wprost, used the picture because it said that breasts sell. And to be sure that there were good breasts, they used the breasts of a 21 year old Polish model.

The breasts are in fact selling the magazine and getting Wprost attention. But they're also selling the concept to the Polish people that Poland is being treated as a second rate member of the European Union.

That is in line with the opinions of critics of the European Union summit who contend that the results of the summit of created a two speed the European Union. It has reaffirmed the German French domination of the European Union. Countries such as Poland will, in the future, be treated as dependent children.

The picture is, of course, rude, crude, tasteless, and childish. But it is very effective in making it point.